No Emily when I lived in Canada (born & raised & lived there for 31 years) I said chesterfield. Down here (we moved to the U.AS. years ago) The people down here thought I was talking about about cigarettes. I now call them sofa’s

Transplanted U.S. > Canada here… The Canadians in my life use “transport” for U.S. “semi truck”. “All Dressed” for “The works”, “Cash” for Cashier” or “Check out”. “On for X” instead of “On sale for X”.

I’m from NB and we always said that too; in fact, a chocolate company had a TV ad when I was a kid where they people bit into the chocolate, and said, “some good.” I live in SK now and nobody says that here.

‘Toque’ is French, now also Canadian-English. Also, I don’t know why Britishisms are on this list. I mean, why don’t we add ‘Throne Speech’, ‘Speaker’s Mace’, ‘prorogue’, ‘Military Tattoo’ and ‘Bonspiel’, while were at it? Plus the entire vocabulary of the metric system?

‘Kerfuffle’ is British. Montana knows what a Chinook is, so why is it on the list?
‘Mickey’ is as American as any word. ‘Toboggan’ may have originated in the Canadian North, but Americans use it, see Calvin and Hobbs.

Toque is not French, tuque is. Why Anglos insist on changing the vowle bbut not the pronunciation eludes me. In my dictionaries, toque refers more to a chef’s hat than the knitted hats some of us wear in winter.

Not quite, Arthur.
“Une toque” is the generic French word in France and the rest of the French-speaking world. It now chiefly means a chef’s hat. It is never used to mean a ‘cold-weather hat’.
“Une tuque” is the French-Canadian word, and it means, exclusively, a Canadian-style winter cap. It is possible that La toque of today was La tuque, in the provincial French of the 17th century.

Well I’m pretty sure that’s because we ‘re the 3rd largest producer and consumer of hydroelectricity (which means power created from water and turbines) in the world @ over 50% But I’m sure as a Canadian you already knew that……..

Hydro is simply a company name in certain regions. You are paying an electric bill. Hearing someone say they are paying the “Hydro” bill sounds similar to me to when you are in the States and hear people order “sodas” when they want pop. It sounds foreign to me, as someone who lives outside of a “Hydro” region.

I suspect it’s a marketing term, too, so people don’t ask about those other power sources.

I married a Canadian. When she moved with me to South Carolina, she would inquire about our “hydro bill”. The locals had no clue. Frankly, neither did she until I explained it to her. She also liked to argue with the South Carolinians over who which one of them was “the Yankee”. To her, anyone south of the border was a Yankee.

as a Dual Citizen I have to go with Alan
All media in Canada(east to west) say “in hospital” or “taken to hospital”
Grade Five(5th Grade)
Write the test(wow I should ace that since I made up the questions and then TAKE the test)
Gas Bar(yuck)

That is not Canadian, you would have the Quebec “nation” howling in indignity if it where to be labelled as such in the very magazine that so right fully labelled them as the most corrupt province in Canada!:)

I always thought that a Two-Four was an Ontarioism not a Canadianism. Until recently, here in BC, beer was always sold as either ‘a six-pack’ or ‘a case’ (of 12).
I also know that Back Bacon is supposed to be somehow Canadian but I have never seen it on a breakfast menu and most grocery stores don’t carry it.

When we first moved to the U.S. I asked someone at work “How many stats do you get per year ?” They had no idea I meant statutory holidays.Instead they just say “holiday (s) ” & “vacation” or the lengthy time off that we called “holidays ” as in summer holidays.
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Granted, I’m from Michigan, so not too far off, but I understand (and use) a lot of these…toboggan, loonie and toonie (although I would’ve thought that it’s spelled “twonie”), toque, kapsack, and my personal favorite–kerfuffle. I’d say that I would’ve understood all of these except for Peameal and Mickey with no further explanation.

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